just before warm-up before the route march .. 

nice pic? ... before warm up too .. 

lovely mirrors ... 

SOC =) 

notice the 'Way Out' sign ... :S 

'A' Coy marching in for the passing out parade =) 

Safety Officer ... 

Zzz 

i wonder why we're marching in there ... with that sign ... 

'A' Coy & the foot-drill competition trophy =) 

Updates from CD .. from my daily open journel ... (Week 7 of BRT - i.e. POP week!)

22 Feb - Wednesday

forgot to write an entry cos my OC told my PC to tell me to go home and get my camera equiptment and shoot the passing out parade ... yeah .. anyways i missed the night before POP day .. which is supposed to be the most fun night at camp =( ... oh well =/

23 Feb - Thursday - POP day!

whee~! ... although i'm on light duty and not supposed to do the 10km route march .. i still did it! .. without my field-pack though .. but with a cam bag ... and was shooting pictures the whole way .. =) yup yup .. .fun fun ... shot the parade too ... then booked out early after lunch .. gotta book in early tomorrow again though =( ... just finished processing the pics .. gonna upload some of my favs to my blog in a moment ... Shhh ;)

8.42pm

Updates from CD .. from my daily open journel ... (Week 7 of BRT - i.e. POP week!)

21 Feb - Tuesday

missed an entry last night cos i had guard duty ... yeah ... so here's yesterday's entry

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20 Feb - Monday - Foot Drill competition

in short, Alpha company won =)

then we had to take another tetanus jab :S .... and osme talks .. then SOC retest :S ...

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back to 21 Feb now ..

basically the whole day was POP rehearsals ... borning ... later we got pumped by sgt ruben :S .. simply cos he wanted to tekan us .. :S

8.04pm

22 Feb - Wed

POP tomorrow!

Went to see the MO this morning .. for chest pains for a few days ... did an ECG then sent me for an x-ray ... on light duty for 2 days ... :S ... sian½ hopefully i DON'T get MC ... already gonna miss the route march and parade march ...

1+ pm

UPDATE: i'm at home now ... cos the OC wants me to shoot the route march and parade tomorrow .. haha ..so i get to go home to get my equiptment =P hehe

11.28pm

Updates from CD .. from my daily open journel ... (Week 6 of BRT)

16 Feb - Thursday

It's only one more day till book out day! yay!

anyways i realised i haven't journelled anything for this week yet ... so far ... so here goes ..

Monday - Final Exercise (AKA Final Act - like in the old sega games =P)

It's like THE BIG THING for a SCDF BRT recruit ... it's the final scenario based exercise where we use all out skills ...

Anyways my platoon was to handle the heigh rescue while the other 2 platoons in the company did ground rescue and managed the first aid point + stretchers ...

I was selected to be a Sec-Com ... (i.e. i hold a pen and note book and record where the casualty was found and what injuries, direct my men, ensure the operation goes on safely and call the shots ... i was also not supposed to be physically involved in the op ... but still ... ended up raising and lowering the ladder hinge and supporting the ladder ... :S) or section commander with 9 men under my command ... we had to use the ladder hinge technique cos the other sec com wanted to use the 4 point suspension technique ... and the building i was assigned had a fire on the 3rd floor ... so we had to send people up via ladder, send the ropes up, lower the ladder, set the ladder hinge up then send fire extinguishers up... ... and lower casualties ...

the initial team of 'fire fighters' who grabbed dry chem powder extinguishers forgot to check the wind direction and ended up getting covered by their own dry chem powder :S ... sigh ..oh well .. it was fun ..

Tuesday - Route march
6km route march through cemetaries ... :S ... boring ... only interesting thing was a toad that kept bugging us during our break ..

Wednesday - IPPT & OC night
Passed the stations .. even though i had diarrhoea ... but it rained before the 2.4km run till the time for IPPT was over ... so missed the 2.4km run ..

found out my OC also visits ClubSnap .. :S haha ... OC night was fun ... but as usual they forgot about vegetarian food ...

Thursday - SOC
still got the runs ... not awefully bad ... but stilll ... SOC in abt 2 hours time ... gonna take a nap now ... hopefully it i pass and NCOs don't walk pass and say no sleeping .. :S

-J

1.10pm

17 Feb - Friday
found out i failed my SOC eventhough the timing says i passed :S ... so i was supposed to take it again .. but today .. god said there will be NO SOC today .. haha .. in a very BIG way ... with thunder, lightning and a huge storm .. =) we did out 5BX then it thundered and the sky grew dark and was lit by streaks of lightning ... so we grabbed out bottles and ran back to bunk .. yaya ... so cool ..

thank you God =)

3.50pm

18 Feb - Saturday
had a recall drill this morn .. so i got up at 4.30 to prepare to leave to arrive on time ... left the camp early .. at around 9.15 ... cos i was excused to go to church =) .. thank you God again ... =)

10.01pm

Updates from CD .. from my daily open journel ... (Week 5 of BRT) - here come the photos! =P (2/2)

Updates from CD .. from my daily open journel ... (Week 5 of BRT) - here come the photos! =P (1/2)

Updates from CD .. from my daily open journel ... (Week 5 of BRT)

6 Feb - Monday

I was just thinking ... my bunk is kinda weird ... no speakers ... yet ... but we have a vacuum cleaner ... the guys don't decorate their locker interiors with posters or photos ... everyone's pretty mild mannered ... and 10/13 are clinese, 2/13 malay and 1/13 indian .. :S .. usually it's 90% malay ...
7.04am

Just got back from MTV for the hazard/CA suit training thingy ... where we do exercises inside a CA suit then have to remove our gas masks in a room filled with tear gas ... eurgh .. pics to come soon ... =P
5.41pm

7 Feb - Tuesday

did tunnelling at the MTV today ... didn't really have time to journel ... thus the lack of details .. but photos will come soon .. =P ...

8 Feb - Wednesday

failed ippt again .. the 2.4km run section ... sigh ... (i'm still sick .. :S)

then went to do CIP :S ... and got some snacks from our NCOs =P

later we had basic fire fighting skills test ,... :S .. and i missed 2/3 of the lessons for that cos i was on MC ... :S ... but i still passed comfortable ... thanks to my bunk mates! .. =)

morning PT was killer too ... :S

9 Feb - Thursday

we were supposed to have SOC test in the afternoon ... but well ... it rained ... *sigh* ...

10 Feb - Friday

had canvas jump and rockwall .. haha ... pics to come ... then booked out late .. (5.30+) and went for cell grp =)

Updates from CD .. from my daily open journel ... (Week 4 of BRT)

1 Feb - Wednesday

2 more days to book-out day! haha

had IPPT earlier today .. passed everything but the 2.4km run ... cos i'm still sick from my chest infection .. but at least i completed the run ... haiz ... maybe i shouldn't have pushed myself to complete it .. but i'm kinda glad i did ...

Just read James chapter 2 ... faith justified by works ... ... made me think of me pushing myself to complete my 2.4km run .. not sure why though :S ... haha ... anyways i was thinking of paslms 28:7 & 121:1 before the run ... haha .. kinda weird .. yeah ..

very glad we got no night lessons this week ... and not alot of physical training ... hopefully tomorrow's morning PT will be easier ...
8.43pm

2 Feb - Thurdays

"Damn! i'm gonna be lonely"...

well thats what i thought when the 10/12 of the bunk kenna guard duty cos the sgt screwed up and got screwed by the encik ...

now it's more like .. "damn! i'm gonna be busy" ... cos there're 20beds here ... all without pillow cases or bed sheets and 2 people have to put em all on and tighten em .... and clean the bunk for tomorrow's inspection ...
9.28pm

3 Feb - Friday

5 mins break ... and the Sir is being 'rated' on his teaching skills ... haha ... and we're all pretending to be studious .. thats why i can journel now ... haha ... ok .. submersible pump lesson starting so the captain who's rating the sir can 'observe' the lesson and see that lft farhan is doing his job ... hahaha ..
9.35am

ok ... we basically learnt the theory and connected up the pump and had a very long break till lunch =P ... we 'went' to CDA and used the square well beside the training shed to use the submersible pump and came back in less than 2 seconds =P ... then we wet the hoses and pump .. and the ground too ... haha ... =P

REPT on thursday was pretty easy too =P

unfortunately .. we had psycho-motor training before book-out .. and it didn't rain while we had the physical training ... and worst of all .. someone did the unthinkable ..

someone told the PTI (physical training instructor) that ... *drum roll* his training wasn't tough enough ...

*sniff* ... le si liao ...